Tuesday, April 15, 2014

For any given parent-child relationship, there's probably some alternative parent who would be a better parent on any objective scale your care to measure, and even on the subjective ones.

There's a potential parent who is richer, more emotionally stable, more in love with the idea of a child and willing to have that love applied to the actual child, with a better sense of ethics and morality, and a greater ability to raise a child with those positive traits, all while teaching the child to avoid negative aspects of life, after consciously weighing them, and while not judging others who weigh things differently.

Despite this, just about any parent who was confronted with the opportunity to hand their child over permanently to someone who fit that description would balk at the suggestion, and violence might even ensue, depending on how serious the suggestion was when it was made.

Monday, April 7, 2014

I sent this as feedback to Google, because the flaws in the Android Finance app were annoying me:

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Hi,

It feels like you guys haven't bothered improving this in a while.

Could you please review how to make it better rather than letting it stagnate?

High res screens like the Galaxy S4 show the graphs as tiny, as the graphs seem to be a fixed size in pixels.

Adding a stock always results in an error message, but on refreshing, it's been added correctly.

There seems to be no way to drag and drop the order of items, so their stock in the order they were added.

You add stocks to a "portfolio", but it's just a list of tickers without the ability to even log stocks that you own, let alone integrate in with actual portfolio management tools.

I know that a stock tool seems like it doesn't *need* to do much, but there are lots of opportunities to do things that will blow people away, especially considering it's a default app, so loss of people use it.

Regards,

David Crafti
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I sent the email by clicking the link within the app. Here is the feedback I got:

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